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The New York foreign exchange rates below are selling rates among trading banks of $1 million and mo

Key gubernatorial elections this Sunday could determine how far Brazilian President Fernando Henriqu

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, Nov. 12, 1997 - Oct. 19, 1998 (a graph)*

The Indian government is likely to raise the duty on sugar high enough to stop imports, a sugar indu

Russia's leading steelmakers are scrambling to offset an estimated $500 million in lost sales to the

Oct. 19, 1998RESELLER RACK Unleaded Mid- Premium-Unlead Pre

Current Textile Quotas:Where the average recent utilization rate indicates full quota utiliz

Schenker International has opened a logistics center in Singapore. It is ''a one-stop service center

Oct. 19, 1998Baltic international Freight Futures Market PREV.CLOSE HIGH

The U.S. Department of Agriculture may delay the compliance deadline on its ban on untreated wood pa

Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. President Koichi Yoshida said last week that the yen's recent rise again

Brazil's top infrastructure projects are likely to face delays or reduced government contributions a

Germany's Lufthansa Cargo AG and its Scandinavian counterpart, SAS Cargo, have agreed to share their

FUTURES - October 16, 1998 OPEN INTEREST AND SALES - October 15, 1998All life-of-c

International Petroleum ExchangeOctober 16, 1998 Brent Crude Oil - (Dollars Per Barrel)

Container Innovations Inc., South Kearny, N.J., is accepting packaged goods to help hurricane victim

Turkey's parliament is not expected to establish a shipping ministry before the end of 1998, a shipp

Weary of attacks by unions and labor department officials, the U.S. apparel industry is launching a

Oct. 16, 1998Baltic international Freight Futures Market Prev.Close High

The National Defense Transportation Association's 53rd Transportation and Logistics Forum & Expositi

Ed Emmett, National Industrial Transportation League president, said his association will conduct a

The following trade leads appear exclusively in print in The Journal of Commerce. The leads are curr

October 16, 1998Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represe

Claims are up and sales down at Hong Kong's only underwriter of export insurance, which protects com

Oct. 16, 1998No. 4/ No. 6/ No. 6/1% 1% 0.5%Buckley 21

GERLING GROUPPeter J. Palenzona was hired as managing director of operations. In this new po

HAPAG-LLOYD (AMERICA) INC.Rudy Mack was named president, succeeding W.H. Dehn, who resigned

Canada is well into its third year of budget surplus performance, although it expects ''a year of he

Customs, modifying a list issued early in October, has added the names of 33 more apparel transshipp

If you want to barter, here are some people who can get you started:Corporate Barter Council

United Shipping, a network of independent forwarders, customs brokers and other logistics firms, wil

For decades, the trade of goods into and out of Mexico has benefited from the country's popular duty

Canada's six national chartered banks must not be allowed to sell insurance out of their thousands o

The Corporate Barter Council suggests using the following guidelines when choosing a corporate barte

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Attention, mariners. An iceberg bigger than Delaware has broken off an Antarctic ice shelf.T

The U.S. Customs Service is adding five border crossings to the test of its automated expedited clea

European shippers are nervously glancing at their calendars as the annual season for French trucker

At a time when victims of Hurricane Georges are clamoring for relief, a feud has broken out between

Chemical manufacturers fear a global verification plan to ban biological weapons could prove costly